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  • Dream home winner can't afford the bills

    09/11/2006 5:46:01 AM PDT · by Rb ver. 2.0 · 196 replies · 6,837+ views
    AP via N&R ^ | 9/11/06 | ap
    LAKE LURE (AP) — Donald P. Cook, who won HGTV's 5,700-square-foot Dream Home on April 29, plans to sell the house because of the high taxes and maintenance costs. Cook, an auditor for the state of West Virginia who has been disabled since childhood by multiple sclerosis, said the electricity bill is more than 10 times what he now pays. "I don't think there's any possibility I could afford to live there," Cook, of Alum Creek, W.Va., said in an interview posted on the Home & Garden Web site. "What we plan to do is live in the Dream Home...